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March 28, 2024
“Away for the Day”: Regulating Cell Phone Use in New Zealand Schools
On March 26, New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, well-known for The Coddling of the American Mind, released a new book, The Anxious Generation, where he attributes the transition from a play-based childhood to a phone-based childhood as being responsible for the “epidemic” of Generation Z young people suffering from anxiety, depression and fragility. Haidt claims that “a great…
March 28, 2024
The Quest for a ‘Clean Economy’ Collides with Reality
“There are no solutions,” the celebrated economist Thomas Sowell once wrote, “only trade-offs.” Nowhere is this wise maxim truer these days than in the realm of green energy, where the headlong quest for a carbon-free economy has collided with other cultural, social, and environmental forces. Want to extract lithium, a critical component of the batteries that…
March 26, 2024
Tony Mills on the Failures of Experts During COVID
Tony Mills joins Robert to talk about what policymakers and scientific experts got right and wrong throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss school closures, lockdowns, masks, and vaccines. Tony highlights the loss of trust in experts and how the relationship between science, the media, and politics needs to change. Tony Mills is the Director of…
March 22, 2024
Why Do Men Dominate Chess?
For years now, sports experts and culture warriors alike have been fiercely contesting the issue of whether transwomen (males who live and identify as women) should be eligible to compete in the female categories of numerous sports—including rugby, swimming, weightlifting, and disc golf. But last August, this debate entered an unexpected domain: the game of…
March 22, 2024
Would It Even Be Constitutional to Pause AI?
A year ago today, the Future of Life Institute released a letter calling for a 6-month pause in the training of artificial intelligence (AI) systems more powerful than GPT-4. The signers included Elon Musk and Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak, alongside tech critics like Tristan Harris, who all agreed that AI labs must “immediately pause for at least…
March 21, 2024
Persuasion or Coercion? Unpacking Oral Arguments and Problems in Murthy v. Missouri
Did federal officials go too far and violate the First Amendment when they vigorously–– sometimes successfully––lobbied social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter (now X) to remove users and content questioning the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and mask mandates during the pandemic? That question was centerstage during oral arguments on March 18 before the US Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri. There…
March 20, 2024
Generative AI’s Napster Moment
It’s likely that LLMs may get worse before they get better. These are not merely necessarily bad consequences, but possible results as an emerging industry matures and the law catches up to technological advancement, producing a new post-disruption equilibrium.
March 20, 2024
The Digital Markets Act: Balancing Innovation and Consumer Safety in the App Ecosystem
The introduction of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Europe has sparked a heated debate about the delicate balance between promoting competition and ensuring user safety in the digital landscape. As major tech companies like Apple and Google work to comply with the new regulations, concerns about the potential consequences for consumer experience, privacy, and…
March 19, 2024
Why I’m Out of Step with My Generation
Among my millennial friends, and even more so for Gen Z, it’s common to believe that the United States is in terminal decline. But I remain an outlier because I think the United States’ best days could still be ahead. The country faces challenges, to be sure, but we have an abundance of resources and…
March 19, 2024
Protecting Children Online: Keep Parents in Charge
Before I was married and a parent, I would write with high dudgeon about the defects of involving government in the business of child-rearing. In 2002, for example, I wrote about the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires “verifiable parental consent” before a website or service collects personal information from a child under 13: Many…